Books Are My Bag

📅 Bookshop Day is back on Saturday 11 October 2025! We’re thrilled to unveil this year’s Limited-Edition Bag and campaign artwork designed by the brilliant Ashwin Chacko. ✨ Pre-order this #BookshopDay exclusive from your local bookshop now. #ChooseBookshops @whackochacko

🏝️ Paradise comes at a price... Lo Blacklock returns in The Woman in Suite 11, a gripping new thriller from bestselling author Ruth Ware. 📖 We spoke to Ruth in the latest issue of Booktime — free at independent bookshops now! #ChooseBookshops @simonschusterUK

Join us for a special event with bestselling author @peterjamesuk as he launches his gripping new novel, The Hawk Is Dead.

☀️ Summer reading sorted! Whether you're heading to the beach, relaxing in the garden, or escaping on a weekend trip, the Summer Books catalogue features the books you didn’t know you needed. Pick up your free guide from your local independent bookshop. #ChooseBookshops 📚✨

📖 Discover our Fiction #IndieBookoftheMonth for July In this exclusive video, Mai Sennaar introduces you to They Dream in Gold and shares what it means to be chosen by independent booksellers. They Dream in Gold is available from independent bookshops now. 📚 #ChooseBookshops

Nice to see @WestKirbyBooks expanding into bigger premises #ChooseBookshops

Lovely to have local author Anni Holliday in to sign copies of her debut novel, Windows! The book is loosely based on Linlithgow High Street: will you spot yourself in it we wonder?! Signed stock now in store, and in our own Window! #ChooseBookshops

CBNN’s Bookshop of the Month for July is Serenity Booksellers, based in Romiley with a second location in Stockport, who tell us about their Book of the Month, The Blockbusters! By Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Link in bio for full interview 📚

We’re heading to the brilliant @DeerShed this weekend with our pop-up bookshop! 🎪📚 Expect plenty of bookish bargains, author events, and signings with some incredible writers and musicians 🎶✨ If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket, come say hello at the Buckendz tent —…

Hazy start to the day, but it’s bright & cosy in the bookshop! ☕📚 New journals from Blue Angel arriving soon + restocks of recent favourites. 📦 Book club boxes + orders are in the post! Open till 4pm — pop by! 🧡 #BookShop #BookTwitter #IndieBookstore #AndoverBooks

ICYMI, @approx21words has been named as one of the four ambassadors for #BookshopDay in October! Stay tuned and follow @booksaremybag for more information about the campaign to champion bookshops 📚

✨ As chosen by independent bookshops, here's a reminder of this month's #IndieBookoftheMonth 📚 📚 They Dream In Gold by Mai Sennaar 📷 Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin, illustrated by Louise Forshaw #ChooseBookshops @booksaremybag

We're so excited to be welcoming @TracyBorman to #Chorleywood on Thursday 4th September when she'll be chatting about her new book THE STOLEN CROWN, Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty! Snap up your tickets here! 👇 chilternbookshops.co.uk/event/an-eveni…

Absolutely loved this book - and the pb cover is gorgeous! uk.bookshop.org/a/133/97810350…

🌞 Your summer reading list is here! Summer Books is your ultimate guide to the best books to read this summer, recommended by passionate independent booksellers. 📚 Shop local and pick up your copy from an independent bookshop today. 🌻 #ChooseBookshops

✨ Discover our #IndieBookoftheMonth picks for July at your local independent bookshop! 📚 They Dream In Gold by Mai Sennaar 📚 Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin, illustrated by Louise Forshaw Chosen by independent bookshops. 🧡 📍 Shop local and #ChooseBookshops

📚 They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar is our Fiction #IndieBookoftheMonth for July! A powerful and poetic novel that explores the bonds of heritage, belonging, and transformation. 📍 Available in independent bookshops now #ChooseBookshops

✨💖 A gorgeous globe-spanning 1960s love story. In They Dream in Gold, Mai Sennaar takes us across oceans and continents as we chart their once-in-a-lifetime love. 📍Discover our Fiction #IndieBookoftheMonth for July, chosen by independent bookshops. #ChooseBookshops

🌍 Go on a wild adventure with Hamza Yassin! Packed with fascinating, funny, and surprising facts, Hamza's Wild World is perfect for curious minds of all ages. 🎨: Louise Forshaw Discover our Children's #IndieBookoftheMonth at your local independent bookshop. #ChooseBookshops

✨ Hamza's Wild World by Hamza Yassin, illustrated by Louise Forshaw, is our Children’s #IndieBookoftheMonth for July! A fun, fascinating guide to the animal kingdom packed with hundreds of AMAZING facts! 🔍 Find it at your local independent bookshop #ChooseBookshops

What are you reading this week?